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The Sunday Times

December 28 2014, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

Otherworldly: Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin

TV drama of the year (foreign) GOMORRAH The initial glory of Gomorrah lay in its weaving together of every great American TV show of recent years. Family squabbles (Game of Thrones), power dressing (Mad Men), gangsters (The Sopranos), low-level drug deals (The Wire, Breaking Bad) — it all seemed to be there. That was episode one. Then this spin-off from a 2008 Italian art-house film became its own beast. We sit here praying for a second series. And that we never have to go to Naples.

Non-TV drama of the year TRANSPARENT Jeffrey Tambor’s hangdog face, in full slap and a 1960s Mary Tyler-Moore wig, seemed like the role he had been fated to play all his life. His delicate, tragedy-tinged comedy was just one…

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